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Philosophical Chronicles (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Jean-Luc Nancy

Fordham University Press, 2008

In eleven brief, engaging talks originally broadcast on French public radio, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a philosopher’s rough and ready account of some of the pressing questions of our day and addresses chronic issues within philosophical inquiry. The fundamental question, which recurs again and again, is whether philosophy is conditioned by the world the philosopher inhabits, or whether it must remain unconditioned by that world.Nancy discusses: ...

Lacanian Ink 30 - Objet a
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2007

Is objet a, insofar as it lacks its mirror image, the vampiric object (vampires, as we know, do not generate their image in a mirror)? It may seem so: are vampires not versions of undead partial objects? However, perhaps, the exact opposite is more appropriate as an image of objet a: when we look at a thing directly, in reality, we don t see it - this it only appears when we look at the thing s mirror image, as if there is, in the mirror ...

Listening

2 reviews
Jean-Luc Nancy

Fordham University Press, 2007

An excellent read for music theory students and scholars, as well as philosophers.
Skillfully translated from the original French by Charlotte Mandell, Listening is Professor of Philosophy Jean-Luc Nancy's thoughtful treatise upon the philosophical ramifications of sound and its relationship to the human body. Contemplating how music affects the listener, not only physically but also emotionally and ideologically, Listening is at times technical yet overall an ingenious yet ...

The Creation of the World or Globalization (SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought)
Jean-Luc Nancy

State University of New York Press, 2007

Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.

An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

6 reviews
Agnes Sire, Jean-Luc Nancy

Thames & Hudson, 2006

An eye that truly saw the inner silence . . .
As you browse the millions of photos available on Flickr and other web photo sharing sites, it is apparent that most people wielding a camera do not - cannot - aspire to the special talent of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Renowned for capturing the "decisive moment," Cartier-Bresson was also a highly skilled portraitist. Ninety-seven of his portraints appear here accompanied by one mercifully short ...

Noli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Jean-Luc Nancy

Fordham University Press, 2008

Christian parables have retained their force well beyond the sphere of religion; indeed, they share with much of modern literature their status as a form of address: “Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.” There is no message without there first being—or, more subtly, without there also being in the message itself—an address to a capacity or an aptitude for listening. This is not an exhortation of the kind “Pay attention!” Rather, it is a ...

Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Jean-Luc Nancy

Fordham University Press, 2007

This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the historical and reflective conditions that provided its initial energy. Working through Blanchot and Nietzsche, re-reading Heidegger and Derrida, Nancy ...

Being Singular Plural (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Jean-Luc Nancy

Stanford University Press, 2000

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to “Being Singular Plural.” One of the strongest strands in Nancy’s philosophy is his attempt to rethink community and the very idea of the social in a way that does not ground these ideas in some individual subject or ...

Lacanian Ink 31 - Sacrosanct Depression
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2008

In our Politically Correct times, it is fashionable to discern homosexuality in the musical texture of some classic composers and thus redeem them - there are, for example, totally unconvincing and ridiculous readings of Schubert: he must have been gay, because his music is non-aggressive/penetrative/phallic, full of soft passages... In the case of Eugene Onegin, however, we stand on a much more firm ground. In the Fall of 1876 Tchaikovsky ...

The Inoperative Community (Theory and History of Literature)

3 reviews
Jean-Luc Nancy

University of Minnesota Press, 1991

A difficult but hugely important book.
This book has been very influential in France. If you don't take your philophy neat, of if you are new to Nancy's thought, then I recommend starting with Maurice Blanchot's _The Unavowable Community_, which relates Nancy's concept of finitude to the work and life of Georges Bataille. Blanchot shows why, in the face of the various totalitarianisms of the 20th century, we should care about ...

A Finite Thinking (Cultural Memory in the Present)

1 review
Jean-Luc Nancy

Stanford University Press, 2003

The best philosophy book since...
since Difference and Repetition. Sure it's not a single masterwork, but rather many many essays, but it's amazing and complex and revealing... Now, none of it will likely make sense unless you're relatively deep into continental philosophy already, but for those who are readers in the field, if you haven't spent time on Nancy, you're just spinning your wheels. Yup. Oh, and this will put Being ...

The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

1 review
Jean-Luc Nancy

Stanford University Press, 2007

Discourse of the Syncope
Excellent possibilities in respect of the question of literature and Kant which leaves one particular aporia to be explored for the future. Nancy once agan knows how to avoid the crunch of his work's non-trajectory.

The Birth to Presence (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

1 review
Jean-Luc Nancy

Stanford University Press, 1994

The Birth to Presence and the Presence to Birth
Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading philosophers in Europe today. What one encounters in his work is an intensity of thought, a path of thinking, that reaches into the question of birth and presence. Together with his other works such as The Sense of the World, Being Singular Plural, this constitutes one of those "must-reads" for students of continental philosophy.

Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative

2 reviews
Jean-Luc Nancy

University of Minnesota Press, 2002

The greatest living philosopher
After the death of both Deleuze and Levinas in 1995, the mantle of "greatest living philosopher" presumably went to Jacques Derrida for a while. But Derrida has always refused to be a philosopher other than in the sense of not being a philosopher (which is also being a philosopher). So his cohort and quasi-follower Jean-Luc Nancy had to take the real philosophy from Derrida back to the question ...

The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism (Suny Series : Intersections : ...
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy

State University of New York Press, 1988

The Ground of the Image (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Fort

Fordham University Press, 2005

” The Ground of Image offers more recent and more focused reflections on the nature of representation and art, especially painting.” — Bookforum If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced assuperficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributedwith exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrustedby philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as ...

The Experience of Freedom (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Jean-Luc Nancy

Stanford University Press, 1994

The most systematic, radical, and lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy, this book combats the renunciation of freedom attested in modern history by articulating the experience of freedom at work in thought itself.

The Speculative Remark: (One of Hegel's Bons Mots) (Cultural Memory in the Present)

1 review
Jean-Luc Nancy

Stanford University Press, 2002

Do you like getting lost?
Read Nancy's other book on Hegel, The Restlessness of the Negative. This book here is beyond difficult and obscure, probably the most incomprehensible philosophical study I've ever attempted to read and I've read a good bit of Nancy's other work and Hegel, so I'd think that I should pick something up... but it doesn't happen. It does have a picture of a big rock on the cover though which is ...

Listen: A History of Our Ears
Peter Szendy

Fordham University Press, 2007

In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to the music s/he listens to? What is the responsibility of the listener? Does a listener have any rights, as the author and composer have copyright? Szendy explains his love of musical ...

The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

State University of New York Press, 1992

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